Remember this stage of all these Mineral King oil paintings, as seen last week?
Here is the next phase – skies done. Sort of an assembly line method of painting, but I can’t think of a better way to finish 11 paintings in a short amount of time. (Remember, I have a show coming this weekend called Gray Matter? Gotta hang the show, and then who knows how long it will take to figure out what to wear and how to make my hair behave!)
Kind of scary looking to see them all in this stage of semi-completion. Not as bad as sausage, I’ve heard. And once these are finished and scanned, we will all be pleased with the outcomes. I’m confident of this.
I also dabbled a bit more on the lanterns. They are too small for this much detail, but I’ll keep on keeping on.
Because of the lanterns and the recently painted iris and sunflower, my palette is pretty these days. Often it is nothing but browns, grays and greens, so this is more fun.
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Something I have always wondered; how do painters keep their paint from drying out on the palette? The paint is sitting out in the open air for hours in small amounts–why doesn’t it dry to colorful crusts?
Sharon, that is a real problem with mural painting; it is one of the most difficult aspects when painting in the sunshine. Maybe artists who work in acrylic on canvas mist their palettes with water from time to time. (That paint is a different consistency than mural paint.) One of the great things about oil is its slower drying times, and many plein air painters use oil.
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